Category: advice

Am I you?

The phone rang and a voice said,
is that you?
I said, it’s me.
He said, who are you?
I said,I’ve not figured that out yet.
He said, are you pulling my leg?
I said, I can’t even see your leg!
He said, do you fancy eating owt tonight?
I said, eeh, you’re from Manchester!
But it was just a spelling mistake.
He was trying it on.
Whatever it is

Logic and marriage

Annie ran into Mary’s kitchen wearing a pale green coat and matching suede s oes
Oh,let me tell you my happy news,I am gettng married again
Is that why you are all dressed up?Why green?
Don’t be ridiculous,marriage needs organising
You mean the Ceremony?
Yes, and the meal
I think marriage itself needs organising.Who will pay the bills and bring in the coal?
Which side of the bed will you sleep on?
Oh, I must get larger bed,Annie realised thoughtfully
And who is to be your husband?
I’ve not decided yet,Annie admitted quietly
How many candidates are there for the position,Mary asked quizzically?
Well, the main one is Denis, the psychoanalyst across the road
I expect he already has a big bed..Mary joked knowingly
Yes,I spent a night or so with him and he has a memory foam mattress here.
I hope it doesn’t remember all the women he has slept with
Well, only if they slept there.They might have gone to an hotel or been in a caravan
at Southwold Harbour,Annie rambled on
They might have slept in a wood by a log fire or in a tent on the West Bank
So will he be faithful to you?
He’s already told me he adores me more than he knew possible
That will soon wear off when you live together
How cruel you are,Annie sighed ,like martyr waiting to be executed
Shall I make some tea for us both?
Yes and boil my hankies as well,Mary joked.
I shall boil your tongue if you keep teasing me!
They sat down near the window while the sun was setting in a wine coloured sky
I do like your outlook,Annie said
I thought it was Microsoft’s,Mary told her innocently
You silly idiot,I mean your view
I’ve never heard of YourView.Is it a new thing like Zoom? Mary asked nervously
I mean, this view here from your window at dusk
Wow,I am frightened how I assume everything I learn of is related to Modern Technology
Yeah, said Annie,I’ve done it too
You are both stupid,said Emile the resident cat
How rude.Why do you say that,Mary enquired boldly?
It’s the whole human race.All hooked on Skype or a Twatter
What’s a Twattter?
It’s someone who lives on Twitter
You won’t find a bird on Twitter.
So a bird can’t be a Twatter
That is correct.Aristotle would be pleased if he were here
Where is he?
In a book.

That is end of “Logic made simple” on BBC education

What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil? | Aeon Ideas

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-did-hannah-arendt-really-mean-by-the-banality-of-evil

he banality-of-evil thesis was a flashpoint for controversy. To Arendt’s critics, it seemed absolutely inexplicable that Eichmann could have played a key role in the Nazi genocide yet have no evil intentions. Gershom Scholem, a fellow philosopher (and theologian), wrote to Arendt in 1963 that her banality-of-evil thesis was merely a slogan that ‘does not impress me, certainly, as the product of profound analysis’. Mary McCarthy, a novelist and good friend of Arendt, voiced sheer incomprehension: ‘[I]t seems to me that what you are saying is that Eichmann lacks an inherent human quality: the capacity for thought, consciousness – conscience. But then isn’t he a monster simply?’

Why it’s important to study the humanities

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/26/the-guardian-view-on-the-humanities-the-importance-of-being-rounded

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But besides such practical issues is the larger question of what a good life is. This week, a group spearheaded by the British Academy and including the London School of Economics and Arts Council England offered their answer: a parallel acronym, Shape – social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy. So everything from fine art to psychology to economics: the disciplines that help us govern ourselves, understand how we have developed over time and argue for doing it all better.

The argument for Shape can, if necessary, be economic: last year the arts and culture sector overtook agriculture in terms of its contribution, at £10.8bn a year. The humanities’ supposed lack of obvious vocational pathways is in fact a strength in an economy where flexibility and entrepreneurship are prized, while the perception of lower employability is not borne out by facts – 88% of Shape graduates were employed in 2017 (compared with 89% for Stem).

Shape subjects will also be central to answering the most urgent questions we face; science, for instance, is foundational to comprehending the climate emergency, but will not effect the political and behavioural changes needed to achieve net zero. Nor will it necessarily predict or mould the future. Eric Hobsbawm may have found it baffling that “brilliant fashion designers … sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors”; the fact remains they sometimes can. The stem of a plant is, after all, sustained and not just decorated by its leaves.

We should not be shy to argue for confidence and curiosity, joy and openness as good in themselves. Along with Stem, Shape subjects have the potential to open up the full extent of our humanity, to help shape a well-rounded, empathetic and resilient body politic. Fighting for equal weighting for these disciplines is not only good but also necessary.

• This article was amended on 29 June 2020 to remove an incorrect reference to Nicky Morgan having been the UK’s education secretary. As education is a devolved matter, Morgan oversaw education policy for England only.

If you are English your Northern accent may prevent you from being promoted into the high levels of the civil service and other places too

Since I read this article in the times newspaper I have been wondering how much further ahead I would have gone in my career if I did not have a Lancashire accent.

On reflection it seems a mistake to wonder about what might have happened but instead to concentrate on improving the future

I realise that what I could do do instead of learning the queen’s English I could learn to speak with a foreign accent instead.

I am very fond over the singer and poet Leonard Cohen and I have listen to him for hours and hours since being bereaved. He has a Canadian accent.Since a I love him it will be a tribute. So what I’m hearing him singing I try to to feel in my mouth and throat what he is doing with his.

I have got the accent for a few of the words but it’s taking me a long time, and now I have an accent which is a cross between Northern British, Canadian and Cockney.

It will give some researchers work because I won’t fit into one category,: when I was teaching in a university some people thought I was from the USA, other thought I was Dutch.

My name also causes problems because it’s Danish from the Vikings and it’s very hard for certain people to pronounce it or even try. Unless you’ve been living here only a few years you’ll be very puzzled. Someone who had come here from Eastern Europe asked me where I came from because she was sure my name was not English.She was trying to do some one-upmanship over someone who was less capable of adapting to life in the UK.

Is Boris Johnson English? I don’t think but he went to Eton so he has mixed with the the Royal the aristocats and the wealthy. So that is the accent that has learnt

Shall I keep my accent and it’s mixed sounds or shall I try to become totally Canadian? That does not have an answer but it has made me live longer trying to reconcile these differences and I suppose it would have been easier to go to an efficient teacher and learn to talk with BBC English or received pronunciation. That sounds quite religious as if Boris Johnson had climbed Snowdon and received the tablet from God tell ng him how to pronounce vowels.

Are you worried about your anxiety?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/smarter-living/the-difference-between-worry-stress-and-anxiety.html

Mike Flemming copyright 20-22
  • Write your worries down. Research has shown that just eight to 10 minutes of writing can help calm obsessive thoughts.

Remember: Worry is helpful only if it leads to change, not if it turns into obsessive thoughts.

The neighbour’s cat ate my curry

I left a pan of curry on the stove
Hot as ash combined with burning coal
Yet when I went back in a cat stood there
Eating this strong curry with no care.

It must have had thick skin inside its mouth
Before I looked ,it ran out of the house
To think it gobbled up our supper so
Leaving me with nothing but a glow

So then I made a chilli beef and beans
My heart ached as I listened to puss scream
Can cats learn that pans are out of bounds?
I’d hate to hear again its anguished sounds

Be sure to close the kitchen door or else
You too will suffer torment from cats’ yells

Doctors’ exam questions

How do you treat stage 4 lung cancer?

By surgery to remove the lungs

And how do you treat brain cancer?

Isn’t it obvious? Remove the brain.

What about your heart?

I took my mine out a long time ago.

You didn’t have it done on the NHS then ?

No but I paid myself £10,000 afterwards

Now, let’s do the circulation of the blood.

Which person discovered that the blood circulated around the entire body.

I didn’t even know that anyone had discovered that.

Going back to oncology what about skin cancer?

I thought this was a general oral examination not a specialist one for people studying oncology

Alright what makes your pulse go too low?

Boredom I think.

So what is the cure for that?

Being a medical student

There’s no need to go on. You have failed completely.

Thank you very much sir or madam. I only came here to bring these pens then I thought I would just try to do the exam in case I could become a doctor straight away without doing any training.

They say the people who know the least about a subject are the ones who are more likely to believe they know a great deal about it.

So the more learned you get the more humble you get

Then heaven might be full of scholars but also of people who are highly skilled in other ways such as artists.

. I won’t say they will get on like a house on fire because that might more like hell than heaven.

And what is heaven but a metaphor?

Learn to draw

I like this photo which I took before the pandemic began and I was looking at it I realise that it will be a good photo to use if you want to practise your drawing. It’s not the people that time I phoned you it says the vicarage which is very old and the wall on either side which is also very old.

It’s more easy to draw buildings than people. You will learn about perspective when you draw buildings. It’s the geometry of the shape that matters for practising

If you were going to paint this it’ll be quite a different approach if you are a beginner it’s probably a good idea to use soft pencil and one water soluble pencil.

You could use one fine tip pencil and 1 broad one put some artists don’t like to use pencil because it can you just keep rubbing out at the bits that you don’t like and who you are going to be like that it’s better to use a gel pen which may be water-soluble also or it can be waterproof.

It will make you look at the building more and appreciate it more when you try to draw it. How do you know it’s an old buildings is it because you have seen similar buildings before?

You can spend quite a long time on this project and you will not regret it if you persist m

Right direction

If you are going in the wrong direction there is no pointt hurrying.

Don’t start walking until you have had a very good look at where you are literally or metaphorically.

.Have you got a map?

If you wear spectacles clean them

In any case .more haste less speed

How do you no if it is the right direction?

By instinct or intuition and by conversations with a good friend

But don’t wait for too long as you might grow roots.

Hearing aids United

They profit from an over sensitive tense sinful puma

He quaffs, lentil she cries.

Have you hot manure peering on?

Where are your tentacles. Goats feeding bed everyday

I’ll give you some cunning data.

Could you row toothy Stinks?

Where are you weeping insight?

She went to Mass without a pistol. She didn’t even have a bat.

Please Father I’d like to wake some repressions.

You are refusing me constantly

Through my coast ingenious missiles.

Do you consent?

Well I am a fairy

How many media sins today?

Through my most ingenious assault. my son was committed

For your menace pray for our father.

Am I my brother’s torture?

I can’t correspond you twat.

Please do not bare your quirks

What is the wine?

It is herbs funeral

I didn’t know you could blink after death

How to successfully waste even more money

Why not buy yourself a brand new winter coat in your favourite colour even if you already have 10 winter coats

And since the autumn is coming on why don’t we subscribw to our favourite magazines as the weather gets bad and we can’t get out to the newsagents to buy them.

Doesn’t every woman deserve some new new leather boots for the winter even if it never snows where she lives.

Why bother to go shopping stock up your food cupboard or fridge when you can order a takeaway delivered to your door every evening?

Oh maybe one of your friends would like to eat in restaurant with you. You can pay with your credit card.

Why not start the academic year with a new watch so that you get to the lecture room on time and don’t take the students waiting.

If you work in an office that’s a reason to buy a new watch

Your sister will need one too.Buy online and have it delivered. You need to show how much you love her and you can’t see how to do it without spending a lot of money

Because everybody else including your sister will buy one and you can get some with red straps and red faces that will keep winter depression at bay. Though it might bring on panic disorder when you get new credit card bill and then you have to pay a therapist to help you with your depression

Then you might think why am I wasting money on the cheap therapist when I can spend 10 years in 4 times a week Freudian psycho analysis. That will help me to get to the bottom of why do I waste money on things I don’t need and it will also make me bankrupt at the same time

9 Keys to Handling Hostile and Confrontational People | Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/communication-success/201510/9-keys-handling-hostile-and-confrontational-people

Escalation

One of the most common characteristics of confrontational and hostile individuals is that they project their aggression to push your buttons and keep you off balance. By doing so, they create an advantage from which they can exploit your weaknesses.

If you are required to deal with a difficult individual, one of the most important rules of thumb to keep your cool. The less reactive you are to provocations, the more you can use your better judgment to handle the situation.

When you feel upset with or challenged by someone, before you say or do something you might later regret, take a deep breath and count slowly to ten. In many instances, by the time you reach ten, you would have regained composure, and figured out a better response to the issue, so that you can reduce, instead of exacerbate the problem. If you’re still upset after counting to ten, take a time out if possible, and revisit the issue after you calm down. If necessary, use phrases such as “this is not a good time for me to talk…,” or “let’s deal with this after we cool off…” to buy yourself time. By maintaining self-control, you leverage more power to manage the situation.

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How to Be Better at Stress – Well Guides – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/guides/well/how-to-deal-with-stress

It’s all good

Changing your perception

With stress, the mind and the body are intrinsically linked. You can view stress as something that is wreaking havoc on your body (and it can) or as something that is giving you the strength and energy to overcome adversity. Here’s a quick way to think about these two very different views of stress. Read the statement, and then think about your own reaction 

How would we like to dress?

Why should we want to wear a certain kind of clothing just because some famous person wears it?

Perhaps you don’t have any ideas of your own about what you’d like to wear. But these people may not have chosen the clothes themselves. They may be being paid to wear them by some firm or designer. They may not even like them

So stop looking at other people Do you not know what you like?

You may like to think about a few relevant possibilities.

For myself I like to wear colours that appeal to me I like blue. I used to like very bright colours and I still do up to a point. Does colour matter to you you?

Then wear muted colours such as grey especially if you are going out. Initial muted colour

Do you like to be inconspicuous in the street?

If it does not you could dress ini black or another neutral colour. Some people do this anyway because it makes life simpler. Other people wear just two or three colours like beige black and light cream.

Restricting the colours to two or three means that you will never have a problem matching clothes together

Similarly do you like prints and patterns or plain colours? It’s much easier if you leave out prints. You can get a scarf which has several colours in if you feel that would be fun to wear.

You need some shoes. You will probably already have got these but they should not clash with your clothing colours

Di you u fancy wearing bright red shoes and you know that’s what you want regardless of what other people wear ? Choose what you want

If you are are living on a small income you may not be able to wear exactly what you want but you can get near it.

If you have got clothes and you hate them, sell them on eBay or give them for charity

Save the money I’m sure you’ll find something you like later.

You don’t have to dress in avway that is dictated to you.

It’s better to enjoy your own choices f you have no interest in clothes just buy things in one colour and forget about it

Or go to charity shops and see if you can find something more interesting add to your very simple and plain outfits

We should try to enjoy as much of life as we can whether it is having good friends finding a job that we like or simply having fun bwith our clothing.

Save a bit more money with handkerchiefs etc

When I was going to university my mother walked to the station with me and she said to me I don’t think your landlady will boil a handkerchief for you so you have to use tissues.

I had never seen a tissue then.

I bought a box the next day and unsure of how many to use I restricted myself to one a day because I couldn’t spend a lot Of course if you had a cold you would need more than one I think.

During the covid-19 epidemic it was really important to use tissues and to dispose of them safely so as not to spread infection.

However they are quite expensive and we had a shortage in the iUnited Kingdom as well ;so what else could you do do?

Well you could buy some handkerchiefs instead and we used to boil ours in a pan on the coal fire in the evening.

I expect you could wash them in the washing machine on a very hot wash when you’re doing towels and sheets.

But I would not recommend this when you have a cold flu or any other infection.

At one time women had to used towels when they were menstruating that is pieces of towelling which were fastened to their knickers with safety pins.

This was not very comfortable and even if you’re short of money it seems to be too extreme because also it’s not very safe and the blood can easily leak onto your clothing.

There are things like menstrual cups made of plastic that you can use which I imagine would save money in the long run but that’s up to any individual woman.

What a surprise after all these years dl to bevwondering whether one can afford to use tissues to blow one’s nose or wipe ones lips etc

It is also better for the planet if we are careful with using paper or cardboard so that we do not ruin in the world by lack of thought and it will save a little money for anyone.

You go out for coffee or a meal and if you have paper napkin provided then if you don’t use it you could take that home and cut it in half and useb each half as a substitute for a paper hanky

If you save 50p a day letting £180 in the year.

0r it is £3.50 a week which will still pay for a large cappuccino.

Please don’t stop using toilet paper. Unless you are a homeless person and in that case you may be able to use a public comlnvenience where there should be toilet paper.

Their names changed frequently



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Art by Katherine [ from photo of my leg with a bleeding insect bite]






Jim Brown was in his new conservatory admiring the windows he had just


polished.His 82nd birthday was coming up in a few days


Marie,his stunningly attractive yet irritable,nasty and over educated


wife,a leading authority on Wittgenstein and most likely suffering from


Asperger’s syndrome into the bargain,….oh a cliche prone author too—!


had made a huge whole orange cake and planned a large gathering of friends to


celebrate his survival for so long whilst married to her,not easy sheknows.


He heard a sharp tapping on the door.


There lay Lucy   their next door neighbour   spying through the keyhole.


“Are you on your own?” she queried tersely yet rudely.


“No, yet I’m suffering from chronic existential anxiety” Bill lied politely.


“Well,I just saw Martina on her second hand Raleigh bike going to the


market or the Charity Shop or possibly leaving home for ever….”


“Well,I still have the cat here”,he whispered loudly as if he were free


associating in a dream


“Let me in and make me some coffee” she asked courteously,


“She’s an odd one” the cat Emile thought naughtily.


“Where’s my Carnation cat milk?”


“Real or instant?” Simon answered suavely yet naturally.


“Won’t it wash off your brand new coral lipstick from Chanel of Paris?…


not to mention your factor 60 sunblock.”


“God’s whiskers” she murmured quaintly to herself.


“How does he know it’s Chanel?


Is he a spy or what?


Is he in M.I.5?”


John got some instant coffee and debated whether to put in a little LSD to


add some visions to their morning!



No,a short breathing exercise would do he concluded after 9 minutes of obsessive


anxiety.


He sat down in his favorite old wooden Habitat chair having poured the


coffee into some old plastic mugs.


“Did you know Habitat is going b..b bankrupt?” she brightly stuttered


turning pink with happiness and the menopause which so far had lasted over 30 years.


Suddenly Lucy sat down on Bert’s lap and began to kiss his right eyelid


“Careful, my darling!” he muttered insensibly.


He was savouring the annoyingly uncommon pleasure when the chair fell to pieces as it


frequently did at such times, throwing the elderly but


versatile and experienced couple down onto the new Mary Quant patterned pure New


Zealand lambswool carpet.Suddenly they heard the peal of Mary’sbicycle bell.Shortly she


walked into the room carrying 78 bags of groceries for the birthday party.


“What’s going on here ?” she murmured seductively in a piercing shriek.


“I’m so sorry, Jenny, please accept my apologies, he has this thing about


chairs.It’s a fetish ,I  believe,   according to Sinald Floyd.””


“Have you got your mobile?” shrieked Tom agonisedly in a  loud whisper.


”I can’t get up.” he screamed softly.”Am I dead?”


“What cannot stand up must forever remain lying down”


As my old philosophy tutor at Cambridge used to say, muttered Marty.


“Why, that’s  bit extreme,” said Jane uneasily yet gallantly.


.”MY tutor said “Who cannot speak must forever remain silent.”


“Oh,who was your tutor?”


“Elizabeth Ansconbe!” Amy admitted furtively.”She knew Wittgetensin well.”


“Mine was Iris Murdoch!” called out Alf.


Later they heard a silent siren.It was the emergency ambulance.


Dick, the paramedic bounded into the room.


“It’s this chair”  said Marie urbanely.


“Can you mend it for me? My husband can’t manage without it!”


“Anything else, madam?” Rick queried anxiously.


“Any coal to fetch in,tins to open, blocked toilets?”


“Later maybe.”


Danny looked at Joan.


“Your eyes look like two deep pools in the Caspian sea.” he whispered into her left ear.


“Are you on another creative writing course?”she quipped .urbanely


“Yes, we’re on eyes at the moment; what colour is that eyeshadow you have on.”


“This is called winter teal” She admitted uneasily yet seductively.


“Did you know I’m a transvestite?” he admitted happily.


“Yes”,she replied dishonestly


.Kitty liked  to give an impression of omniscience owing to her ontological insecurity and


her ignorance of theology and also her narrowly trained mathematical mind.


Unfortunately, that frequently gave men the wrong impression.


Mamie cried out to Al,


“Get on with it,my sweetie!” So he took out a big tube of glue from his


jeans’ pocket and set to work reconstructing the chair.


“Oh,dear, Stewart looks a bit odd”


“No,he looks quite prime to me.”


“Is he an integer?!”


“No, he’s a transcendental real number”


“He’s a number all right.”


“Never mind, we’ve just got new wheelie bins so I’ll put him out with the


rubbish,”


Marty joked on hearing Amy’s remarks to Zach.


But Simon was not yet dead.He merely had fallen asleep.


He dreamed of his days at Oxgridge University studying illogic and unreason with


Rudolphina Catnap, the famous female philosopher.Oh, happy, happy days!


Danny made the ladies some Ceylon tea in the fabulous oak kitchen with its pure linen


curtains in raspberry beige. and its black enamel sink with


matching double oven and microwave.”Why no halogen?”Iris Murdoch might have


asked.


“What is a human life,”he pondered.He was studying logic as well as writing.


He began to tremble like a leaf in the wind to use a freshly recycled old


cliche.


“Help” he called,”I’m having a panic attack.Hurry I’m dying,I believe.I


need a priest“


“You can’t have a panic attack,” shouted Marianne


“Paramedics heal themselves.”


“Does God heal those who heal themselves,  he  wondered as he lay under a pile of


broken china?”


“Where’s the tea?” called the ladies.


Ah ,if only Wittgenstein were here,he would know,thought Emile.


But I disagree.Only God would know that and He won’t say usually as he


speaks another language known only to the few.Though sometimes one may hear it on


the wind deep in a thick forest.


That’s what I believe.


Here endeth the first lesson… no more today

















	


	



			
				


			

			
Leave evil for good
		
	
	

		






From anguish,pain and paranoia flee





Into calm and joyful states of mind





Keep your balance so that you can see 





To yourself and all the lost be kind










Do not linger in the shopping mall.





Do not meet the ladies as they lunch





Flee to parks and gardens, flowers and soil.





Flee to sandy beaches,find a bench.





If you feel such hatred, what’s the evidence?





If you have been wronged oh do not sulk.





Much good in life arrives by happenstance.





Do not cling to angry thoughts in bulk.





Exercise your body with romance





Even nasty places give a start





To finding the true path with mind and heart

	


	



			
				


			

			
Goodbye
		
	
	

		






I thought I loved a man with all my heart





Until I ate your famous apple tart.





I thought that I could live inside his arms





Till your heat destroyed his little charms





I was too kind so now I shall be cruel.





You must fight a sex fiend in a duel





I needed to escape his lassoo long





So I burst into a moralistic playgirl song





He could could afford no golden ring for me










He banks with only HSBBC.





I said he had to save me on his Drive.





He hates Google,ain’t that a surprise?

	


	



			
				


			
				


			

			
Mary,Mary
		
	
	

		






Mary realised her voice was louder than most when people took out their hearing aids when she talked to them 





But was she right?





There are alternatives explanations such as people were not interested in Wittgenstein but in the cost of living 





She did find her booming voice useful when phoning doctors,





Why had her voice got louder as she aged? Could her doctor have given her testosterone instead of oestrogen?





Off she went to meet her doctor on Zoom





Oh,my God her GP shouted.





When you said you were an 85 year old mathematician I assumed you were a man but your voice was feminine hence I gave you male hor.mones to deepen it and make it more authoriative 





Why  don’t you change your gender ? he continued





I don’t feel like a màñ 





How do you know how men feel ?





They have felt me in bed with an urgency that surprised me





If you tell them you are trans they won’t feel you anymore





Unless they are gay





And so say all of us

	


	



			
				


			

			
Good for the sick
		
	
	

		

They are giving out packed lunches in the hospital so make sure your relative has some sharp scissors and Elastoplast plus a plate.





Soon they will get all their meals this way after Microwaves are installed 





Alternatively you can bring them food from home.  a quiche





will last for 3 days in winter .As will tomatoes.










Or send pizza to the Ward.





We can’t feed everyone.





We are not your Saviour.





If you feel àt death’s door stay at home





Why not shoot yourself and end the torment now?





Irony is good for you 

	


	



			
				


			

			
A comma makes you British 2
		
	
	

		

My tree. Katherine copyright





I can’t pass the written English exam for immigrants because I rarely use punctuation marks.They annoy me





 But it you were born here it is alright.Is that fair?





There’s many a comma twixt failure and success 





If you don’t know, you will just have to guess 





You may get it right, you may get it wrong.





Put that new comma right where it belongs

	


	



			
				


			

			
God is in and with the suffering not in church
		
	
	

		

By Katherine





One friend became an atheist till her grandson got cancer





Then she prayed





Let him get  Better and I will start going to church again





Do we think God needs us to go to church?





He needs us to help the poor starving, suffering, lonely





Going to Church is for the Church










Power.





Did Jesus plan to build a Church?





It is ridiculous

	


	



			
				


			

			
Guilt in Eden
		
	
	

		

Digital art by Katherine





By Katherine





For three weeks I had a virus so could  not exercise.I was concerned because my muscles are not in the ideal condition





I mentioned it to someone who said





But it’s not your fault





That is true but our muscles will get weaker if we don’t use them for ANY reason.Whether it is our fault or not





The body does not know why we don’t move It just reacts to how we use it





Oh for the happy days when we could fall over and get up again





With no injuries











	


	



			
				


			

			
Higher Education
		
	
	

		






I wanted to buy a light weight jacket.I would like it in Unnatural I told them boldly





We don’t do that colour





Well you do Natural!.Every thesis has an opposite one.So with colours





This is not a University, Mrs Hegel





Why tell me that?





You know toi much logic





I am terribly sorry.I shall try to forget it.Along with Grammar





Spelling Thinking Sanity Argument Maths Literary Criticism Theology Philosophy





Wittgenstein Einstein Hegel





Wow I feel sorry for you.You have so much to forget





That’s a novel way of looking at





Education 





And it costs so much too





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